Sad-iron cleaner and waxer.



PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

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SAD IRON GLEANER AND WAXE RE APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7 1907.

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.TOHN HORNUNG, OF DRESDEN, OHIO.

SAD-IRON CLEANER AND WAXER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed January '7, 1907- Serial No. 351,035.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN Hormone, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dresden, in the county of Muskingnm and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sad-Iron Cleaners and Waxers, of which the following is a specification.

The object'ol' this invention is to provide an im proved accessory [or ironing boards of simple, cheap and compact form whereby the sad iron can be kept clean and smooth and properly waxed Without the necessity of vexations and laborious lilting of that article about and without the necessity for picking up and handling various separate devices.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed, the invention not being confined to the exact forms or arrangement of the parts shown.

In the accompanying drawingsFignre 1 is a perspective view of the device; Fig. 2 is an end view showing how the clamps are hinged to the board; Fig. 3 is a view of one of the clamps detached.

In the views 4 designates a board or block preferably of tapering quadrangular form and somewhat longer than wide, and provided in its longitudinal edges with grooves 4-. Hinged to two eyes 5, 5 fixed at the smaller end of the board are two separate and independent rods 6, 6 one for each edge of the board and each bent to pass around the corners at one side of the board and to lie in or over the groove 4. The rods 6 are provided at their free ends with hooks as indicated at 6 to engage eyes 7 fixed in the larger end of the board.

It will be noted that the rods can be swung on the eyes 5, 5 in a plane flatwise of the board. Iprefer that each rod in its longer part between its bends be slightly curved along their middles toward the board so that some little pull shall be necessary to put the hooks at 6 into the eyes 7. The rods will thus press toward the groove and serve as eflicient clamps or clasps for flexible material interposed between the edge of the board and the rods. The rods maybe denominated clamps or clasps, and they are designed to hold in place three several strips or pieces of flexible material 8, 9 and 10.

The strip 8 is a piece of emery cloth upon which the iron can be smoothed or freed from objectionable things sticking to it. 9 is a strip of paper upon which is deposited a modicum of wax, as seen at 9". By applying the hot smooth face of the iron to the wax a little adheres to the iron. 10 is a strip of canton flannel for spreading the wax over the smoothing face of the iron. Because the rods 6, G are separate and independent of each other the cloths can be first adjusted and fixed at one edge and then stretched and fixed at the other edge without liability of displacement at the edge already fixed.

Any of the flexible pieces when worn out or rendered unsuitable for further use can be readily replaced with a fresh one.

When not in use the device can be hung up by means of astaple or eye 11 inserted in one end of the device.

\Vhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

i. A sad iron cleaner and waxer, comprising the combination of a board of quadrangular form provided with grooves in its opposite longitudinal edges, pieces of flexible material. substantially as described, extending across the board and across said grooves, two rods each angularly bent to extend around two corners of the board for clampv ing the flexible material in said grooves, each rod being hingedly secured at one end of the board to swing in a plane flatwise of the board and each rod provided with a hook at its opposite end, and an eye at the other end of the board to receive said hook, said hook being freely passed into and from said eye.

2. A sad iron cleaner-and waxer, comprising the combi nation of a board of quadrangular form provided with grooves in-its longitudinal edges, pieces of flexible material extending across the board and across both said grooves,t\vo rods each angularly bent to extend around two corners of the board and curved inwardly toward the board between i 

